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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		53,392/65,099	82.02
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	23,424	43.87
Gilmour William Parvin	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,456	28.95
Donald Paul Macquarrie	Scottish National Party	13,819	25.88
David McDowall	Communist Party	693	1.30
Majority		7,968	14.92

10 October 1974		52,073/65,799	79.14
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	21,810	41.88
Gordon Stewart Murray	Scottish National Party	19,106	36.69
Gilmour William Parvin	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,513	16.35
David Miller	Liberal Party	2,644	5.08
Majority		2,704	5.19

3 May 1979		58,277/73,094	79.73
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	31,401	53.88
William Guthrie Hodgson	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,128	29.39
Gordon Stewart Murray	Scottish National Party	9,090	15.60
David McDowall	Communist Party	658	1.13
Majority		14,273	24.49

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		47,278/62,456	75.70
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	17,545	37.11
Denis Robert Emmet Sullivan	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	13,199	27.92
Richard Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,483	24.29
David Martin Urquhart	Scottish National Party	4,795	10.14
William Ernest Doolan	Communist Party	256	0.54
Majority		4,346	9.19

11 June 1987		49,977/63,998	78.09
Adam Paterson Ingram	Labour Party	24,491	49.00
Denis Robert Emmet Sullivan	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	11,867	23.74
Paul Mackenzie Walker	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,344	14.69
James Hand Taggart	Scottish National Party	6,275	12.56
Majority		12,624	25.26

9 April 1992		51,276/64,080	80.02
Adam Paterson Ingram	Labour Party	24,055	46.91
Kathleen McAlorum	Scottish National Party	12,063	23.53
Gordon M Lind	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,781	19.08
Sandra May Grieve	Liberal Democrats	5,377	10.49
Majority		11,992	23.39

Minor Boundary Change
1 May 1997		48,796/65,229	74.81
Adam Paterson Ingram	Labour Party	27,584	56.53
George Currie Gebbie	Scottish National Party	10,200	20.90
Clifford Tex Herbertson	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,863	12.02
Katherine Hilary Ross Philbrick	Liberal Democrats	3,527	7.23
John A Deighan	Pro-Life Alliance	1,170	2.40
Julie Gray	Referendum Party	306	0.63
Ewan Cunningham Gilmour	Natural Law Party	146	0.30
Majority		17,384	35.63

7 June 2001		41,690/66,572	62.62
Rt Hon Adam Paterson Ingram	Labour Party	22,205	53.26
Archie Buchanan	Scottish National Party	9,450	22.67
Ewan Gordon Hawthorn	Liberal Democrats	4,278	10.26
Margaret McCulloch	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,238	10.17
David Stevenson	Scottish Socialist	1,519	3.64
Majority		12,755	30.59